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Faber will no longer distribute Sally Rooney's books in the United Kingdom, in any format, the author and publisher said on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. Rooney says her support for the proscribed group Palestine Action makes continued UK sales a legal risk.
Film & Media
HBO has announced a five-episode return of the series nearly a decade after its last episode aired. Lena Dunham and most of the original cast are returning, while Adam Driver has not been announced.
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The image, called The Aftermath and shot in Namibia's Huab river valley, shows an elephant carrying a dead calf that was not her own. It tops the Natural History Museum's 2026 contest, which drew more than 65,000 entries from 121 countries and territories.
Music
The 18 performers were chosen from about 900 songs submitted over 115 days. Semifinals follow on 26 and 28 January 2027, with the final on 30 January at the Palau d'Esports L'Illa in Benidorm.
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Louvre director Christophe Leribault says the Paris museum could eventually have to shut to the public without a renovation, days before the first anniversary of the 2025 jewel heist. Security works are under way, but he calls the wider overhaul the only way to secure its future.
Film & Media
The Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi film had taken 23,525,643 euros by Sunday 11 October 2026, according to Rentrak. El Confidencial places it eighth among Spanish films by takings, though the figure is provisional.
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The 75th Premio Planeta, which drew a record 1,424 manuscripts, will be awarded on Thursday, 15 October, at Fira de Barcelona. Nine finalists are in contention for a prize of one million euros.
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A. A. Milne's book was published in London on 14 October 1926, a week before its New York edition. Since then it has been translated into more than 70 languages and spread through Disney films and merchandise.
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Georgia Oakley's adaptation, which AP describes as the first Sense and Sensibility directed by a woman, casts Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor. AP says the film opens in theaters on Friday, while El País lists Friday, 23 October for Spanish cinemas.
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Hulu has ordered a full series of the X-Files reboot written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel star as new FBI agents, and no release date has been set.
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The 2,050 square metre extension at 68 Zurbano Street opens to visitors on Thursday, 15 October, while the Sorolla house itself remains under renovation. An exhibition on the building's architecture from 1905 to 2026 opens alongside it.
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The ZDF has defended a satire segment in which Jan Böhmermann is run over by a truck on a Simson moped. Critics read the scene as a jab at AfD politician Ulrich Siegmund, who campaigned on a blue Simson Schwalbe.
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RJ Mitte, who played Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad, died on 12 October 2026 in Brownsville, Texas, aged 34. A spokesperson acknowledged reports that the death was a suicide, and co-stars have paid tribute.
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Jorge Javier Vázquez made the announcement during the Supervivientes All Stars gala on Tuesday, 13 October, with four former housemates on set. The ninth edition is expected to start in November, and the cast has not been confirmed.
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The novel Mi amor no muere, published in Spain by Alfaguara, is based on a real 'Ndrangheta case involving a Florentine student who fell in love with a man from a Calabrian mafia family. Nobody was ever convicted in her case.
Music
The 82-year-old Canada-born singer-songwriter posted footage of her naturalization ceremony on Instagram on Tuesday, 13 October. She has not explained why she applied now, and her team did not respond to a request for comment from the New York Times.
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The film, a drama about three couples and domestic violence, opened the festival on 13 October and reaches Italian cinemas on 12 November. The festival runs until 25 October with 150 films on its programme.
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Four anonymous industry sources cited by GamesBeat say Rockstar plans the PC version for January to March 2027, months after the 19 November console launch. Rockstar has not confirmed the date.
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The Swedish Academy announced the prize on 9 October, worth about one million euros. Carson, who is 76, was reached by phone while she was in Iceland.
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The Canadian-Haitian author says no sentence of his novel was written by a machine, while apologising for copying passages from established writers after moving to Canada.
Film & Media
The series from Rogan Scotland will trace Rowling's rise from Edinburgh cafes to her role as a divisive political voice, and Rowling is not taking part.
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Fred Cavayé's new adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel reaches French cinemas on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, with Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean and Tahar Rahim as Inspector Javert.
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Sigfrido Ranucci has packed up his office at Rai and posted a farewell video after the Rome Labour Court rejected his urgent appeal against being removed from the programme he hosted for about twenty years.
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Reviewers call Evil Empire and Konami's new 2D entry a strong return for the series, though several flag uneven pacing and demanding platforming.
Music
Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. has released 'Where Is Gone?', a ballad sung with Spanish singer Rosalía ahead of the album Dopamine Chamber, due Friday 16 October. It is the first time the band has brought a guest vocalist onto one of its records.
Music
Nikos Karvelas says all his income is declared and that no tax debt is owed to the state, while people in Anna Vissi's circle accuse him of demanding 1.5 million euros.
Film & Media
The film depicts the leak of internal Meta documents by Frances Haugen to The Wall Street Journal, tracking the impact of platform algorithms on politics and mental health.
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Netflix's first trailer for Greta Gerwig's Narnia film debuted in Manhattan on Tuesday, 13 October 2026. Its second half is scored to Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', a song the band seldom licenses, and the film opens in theaters on 12 February 2027.
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The American actress, who won an Academy Award for her 1954 screen debut in On the Waterfront and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, died on Tuesday at her Los Angeles home.
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All eight episodes of the Stephen King adaptation debuted on Prime Video on 7 October 2026, shifting the 1974 horror novel to a modern high school setting with expanded paranormal world-building.
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Italian musician and comic Giorgio Bracardi died at the age of 93, his family announced on Monday, 12 October 2026. He had been in a care home in Fiano Romano since breaking a femur in the spring.
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Blumhouse and Universal's horror film Other Mommy debuted at No. 1 with $27.5 million, while Sony's The Social Reckoning grossed $5.5 million, below its projected $7 million to $8 million debut.
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On Monday, 12 October, judges announced that no expelled contestant will return to the kitchens this season. Actress Bibiana Fernández became the sixth contestant to leave after a three-minute laser-course test and a dessert challenge set by chocolatier Álex Madrigal.
Music
During her eleventh residency show at the Plénitude Arena in Paris, Céline Dion fell during a dance routine and later forgot the words to a hit song before the audience intervened.
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Reviews of the Disney+ series VisionQuest, the third part of a trilogy that began with WandaVision, were published on 12 October 2026. Critics praised Paul Bettany and James Spader while several argued the show marks the end of Marvel's TV experiment.
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British novelist and former Conservative peer Jeffrey Archer died at home at age 86, one day before the publication of his final novel, 'Adam and Eve'.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dark comedy Digger opened to $20 million worldwide, creating projected losses of up to $200 million as Warner Bros. Discovery finalizes its $110 billion merger with Paramount-Skydance.
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Tom Cruise's satire Digger, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, opened in late September 2026 and fell about 60% in its second North American weekend. Reports cite estimated losses of around $245 million for Warner Bros, its final standalone release before the Paramount merger.
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The film accuses the Israeli army of knowingly killing many civilians in Gaza and gets a restricted run of 500 screenings in France. Free online streaming follows in November, according to Le Monde.
Music
Shakira played her last Madrid concert of the residency on Monday, 12 October 2026, at Macondo Park, with Maluma, Bizarrap, Dani Martín, Beéle and Laura Pausini joining her on stage. Sources put attendance above 55,000 people.
